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October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Installing the Visual Studio extension development workload presents you with a choice of optional components. Looking at the list might leave you rather confused, because how are various C++ components and the Class Designer especially relevant to writing extension? And where is IntelliCode?
October 1, 2019Oct 1, 201910/1/19Over the past year, the Visual Studio for Mac team updated the editors within the IDE to be faster, more fluent and more productive. We did this by building a macOS-native editor interface on top of the same editor backend as Visual Studio on Windows.
September 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19Welcome to the September update of Azure IoT Tools!
In this September release, you will see the improved remote debugging experience and Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service support in Visual Studio. Additionally, an iotedge-compose tool has been released for you to port compose-based apps to Azure IoT Edge.
September 26, 2019Sep 26, 201909/26/19We have been posting several short videos about Visual Studio extensibility to our YouTube channel in the past couple of months. We chose the topics for the first videos, but now it’s time for you to tell us what videos to record next.
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19Have you ever accidentally shipped a log statement to production? Are you tired of cleaning up log statements while debugging? The tool to solve your problems has been here all along!
September 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19Have you ever needed to debug or profile an executable (.exe file) that you don’t have source for or can’t build? Then the least known Visual Studio project type, the EXE project, is for you!
August 27, 2019Aug 27, 201908/27/19Whether you like short how-to videos or longer deep dives, the Visual Studio YouTube channel has something for you. With fresh content published once to several times a week, there are always new and interesting videos to help you stay current on everything Visual Studio.
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 are available. Because many of the features in this release are a response to Developer Community feedback, we are excited to share our changes. First of all,
August 8, 2019Aug 8, 201908/8/19In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, the CSProj project system (C#/VB non-SDK style) introduces a new way of loading called Partial Load Mode (PLM). After the solution loads, the project system is doing design time builds in the background, leaving the UI responsive and interactive. Extensions may need to adjust for this behavior change.
August 2, 2019Aug 2, 201908/2/19Welcome to the July update of IoT Tooling!
In the release, we have made a lot of features and improvements for our IoT developers!
General Availability of IoT Edge tooling
Azure IoT Edge was released in the year of 2017. With near two years’ continuous working on the Azure IoT Edge Tooling,
